Malapropisms

law of apple juice -- Stephanie Goodwin 5/28/2002

I don't see anything wrong with getting renumeration -- Gennifer Flowers on getting paid for talking to the press

unfrettered access -- overheard @ SANS conference

There are probably only five or six guys who are truly number one -- Baseball Manager

Rick Sondick has a photogenic memory -- Sylvain SImard (4/9/03)

I think deportment might be a good idea -- Mandi Hall on the DEPORTATION of a colleague (4/10/03)

You'd think that NYU would have decent infant-structure -- Stephanie Goodwin, unintentionally (4/1/2003)

ISDN numbers are not POTS lines -- Michele Maxfield 4/1/2003

Gingerbread house kit--no assembly required -- package seen in supermarket, Hoboken, NJ

Arafat has made himself urgently irrelevant -- Senator Chuck Hegel of Nebraska (12/8/2002)

This is how we're going to talk from often -- Stephanie Goodwin before her morning tea (10/29/02)

phero-gnomes (pheromones) -- Mandi Hall (10/25/02)

He's one of those guys who has a lot of moving parts -- Joe Morgan on Kevin Appier (10/13/2002)

"I'm wondering where the legitimate people have gotten to,"

"You mean they're incompetent or illiegitimate?" Conversation between Adam Jaymes and Mandi Hall (9/9/2002)

I read CNN every night -- Elliot Rosenfeld (9/9/2002)

To my sisters I was the only boy -- Elliot Rosenfeld (9/9/2002) (alt. "Out of my siblings, I was the only boy.")

Tomorrow might be another day. -- overheard outside The New York Public Library

Adam-isms

"The woman before that was a guy" (18 March 2003)

"You're doing those ‘woman eye gestures’ " (4 March 2003)

"I thought I was skinnier than what I thought." (14 August 2002)

"I try to be as professional as possible, within reason." (10 July 2002)

"It's more than you can phantom"

"I will never offer my insistence again"

"It's a work in project"

"Do you really want me to entertain that question in a statement?"

"Unless they have an abundancy of money" or "unless they have a plethora of money"

"Terms of infection"

Last revised: October 2003